Eric Thomas Quotes

We all have the ability to produce greatness in our lives.

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• The first job I ever had was at a pool-liner-manufacturing plant. Minimum wage was $4.25, and that's what I was making. It was this huge, hot, un-air-conditioned factory staffed with all women and me. This is in Georgia, during the summertime, so it was pretty ridiculous.

  

  Jack McBrayer
  • Women
  • Job
  • Pretty

• Some of our best journalists take themselves even more seriously than the politicians they write about.

  

  R. W. Apple, Jr.
  • Best
  • Politicians
  • Seriously

• When the whole world reads your books, is there any other happiness for a writer? I am happy that my books are read in 57 languages. But I am focused on Istanbul not because of Istanbul but because of humanity. Everyone is the same in the end.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • World
  • Happy
  • Humanity

• The next time you feel unworthy, inadequate or inferior, remember that these experiences have nothing to do with humbleness, any more than lowering yourself to connect with another individual has to do with humbleness. There are no lower or higher individuals in the perception of a humble person. There are only souls. There is only love.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • Love
  • For Her
  • Experiences

• I find the whole concept of women screaming at me so odd. It's very flattering, but I don't think I will ever consider myself to be a sex symbol.

  

  Ed Sheeran
  • Women
  • Think
  • Myself

• I've dressed thousands of actors, actresses and animals, but whenever I am asked which star is my personal favorite, I answer, 'Grace Kelly.' She is a charming lady, a most gifted actress and, to me, a valued friend.

  

  Edith Head
  • Friend
  • Star
  • Grace Kelly

• I don't have a very quick sense of humor.

  

  Florenz Ziegfeld
  • Humor
  • Sense Of Humor
  • Quick

• 'Matterhorn' is my metaphor of the Vietnam War - we built it, we abandoned it, we assaulted it, we lost, and then we abandoned it again.

  

  Karl Marlantes
  • War
  • Lost
  • Vietnam War

• I define poetry as celebration and confrontation. When we witness something, are we responsible for what we witness? That's an on-going existential question. Perhaps we are and perhaps there's a kind of daring, a kind of necessary energetic questioning. Because often I say it's not what we know, it's what we can risk discovering.

  

  Yusef Komunyakaa
  • Question
  • Poetry
  • Risk

• Reading poetry gives me a sense of calm, well-being, and love for humanity - the same stuff more flexible women get from yoga.

  

  J. Courtney Sullivan
  • Women
  • Poetry
  • For Her

• If anyone was going to write the definitive account of what the 2008 election meant for women, it would be Rebecca Traister.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Women
  • Going
  • Election

• Women put guys through tests all the time.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Time
  • Women
  • Tests

• The wraith of Sigmund said. 'You know what this is, I suppose. Religious melancholia. Stop while there is time. If you dive, you dive into insanity.'

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Time
  • Stop
  • Religious

• Among politicians and businessman, Pragmatism is the current term for 'To hell with our children.'

  

  Edward Abbey
  • Children

• Puerto Rican culture is very different from Mexican culture. Part of the Mexican psychology is the idea of being an immigrant or being illegal or being confused with that. That doesn't happen with Puerto Ricans, because you're a commonwealth.

  

  Lela Loren
  • Different
  • Culture
  • Psychology

• I'm unbelievably superstitious.

  

  Jillian Michaels

• I cannot remember a time when the Golden Rule was not my motto and precept, the torch that guided my footsteps.

  

  James Cash Penney
  • Time
  • Remember

• In Chinese, honesty is the figure of a man standing, physically standing, beside his work. That means honesty: a man stands by his work. Two things: figure / ground. (p. 314)

  

  Marshall McLuhan
  • Work
  • Chinese
  • Honesty

• We just have to have visibility. We have to have acknowledgement. We have to have accountability to how we treat one another.

  

  Zachary Quinto
  • Accountability
  • Treats
  • VIsibility

• ... art approaches as a saving sorceress, expert at healing. She alone knows how to turn these nauseous thoughts about the horror or absurdity of existence into notions with which one can live.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Existence
  • Healing
  • Horror

• I play in Metallica, and I have fun in Metallica. I tell you, I am the luckiest man on the planet because we have a good time and we're happy. When we put on our guitars, we're teenagers again, and that's where the fun comes in.

  

  Robert Trujillo Metallica
  • Fun
  • Guitars
  • Metallica

• The conversation is happening about your brand whether you're a part of it or not.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Conversation
  • Brand

• We all have the ability to produce greatness in our lives.

  

  Eric Thomas
  • Ability
  • Greatness
  • Produce